#21 (tie): Texas Instruments — 1,000 layoffs

Texas Instruments announced it would close two plants during its fourth-quarter earnings report in January. The factories, one in Houston, Texas, the other in Japan, were targeted after chip demand remained below plan.

#21 (tie): Patriot Coal — 1,000 layoffs

Patriot Coal announced it had trimmed some 1,000 employees since the start of the year as it works its way through bankruptcy protection. This summer the company said it had secured a loan to continue operations.

#19: Archer-Daniels-Midland — 1,200 layoffs

Percent of Employees Cut:

3.9%

Number of Employees After Cuts:

29,500

Description:

Layoffs hit the company's corporate offices as ADM tried to cut costs in the U.S. after reporting profits fell 90 percent in the first quarter. The company had been hard hit by swings in commodity costs.

#16: JC Penney — 1,350 Layoffs

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Percent of Employees Cut:

0.9%

Number of Employees After Cuts:

154,650

Description:

JC Penney has laid off hundreds of its employees in its home office as CEO Ron Johnson tries to pacify investors upset with ballooning losses. In July, Penney said an additional 350 people in finance, IT, and product procurement would be fired.

#15: Citigroup — 1,550 Layoffs

Citi has announced plans to trim its securities division as it focuses on its retail banking side. Recently, the bank said it was considering cutting head count by an additional 350 people. The layoffs tallied do not include 100 positions cut in India.

#13: Lexmark — 1,700 Layoffs

Lexmark said it would exit the ink jet business to save some $95 million a year. The cuts target both U.S. and international operations, with at least 500 of those jobs coming from the company's Lexington, Kentucky location.

#11 (tie): First Solar — 2,000 Layoffs

The solar giant planned to close all of its operations in Frankfurt, Germany and indefinitely idle some production lines in Malaysia, adding to reductions already taking place in Europe and the U.S. in April. However, some strength in certain markets may delay cuts.

#8: Supervalu — 3,300 Layoffs

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Percent of Employees Cut:

2.5%

Number of Employees After Cuts:

126,700

Description:

Albertsons, a Supervalu subsidiary, said it would cut positions across 247 Southern California and southern Nevada supermarkets beginning in June. The company did not say if it would close any stores. Another 800 job losses were tallied when Supervalu trimmed staff at its corporate headquarters.

#7: Google — 4,000 layoffs

Google announced it would make deep cuts within its recently acquired Motorola Mobility division this August. The company said it would abandon many of the low end phones Motorola produced to focus on the smartphone market.

#6: Research In Motion — 5,000 Layoffs

RIM said it would lay off more than 5,000 people after posting a surprisingly deep net loss in its first quarter earnings. The news came as the Blackberry manufacturer said it would delay its new operating system, Blackberry 10, until the first quarter of 2013.

#5: Pepsi — 8,700 Layoffs

Cuts at Pepsi came as the company grappled with higher commodity costs. The company said layoffs would be spread over 30 countries, with the U.S. workforce likely 3 percent smaller by the end of the restructuring.

#3: Lockheed Martin — 10,000 Layoffs

The company said it could lay off as many as 10,000 employees if automatic defense cuts go into effect at the end of the year, the company's chief executive told the House Armed Services Committee today.

#2: American Airlines — 14,200 layoffs

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Percent of Employees Cut:

17.7%

Number of Employees After Cuts:

65,900

Description:

As American's parent company, AMR, trudges through bankruptcy, the company said it would eliminate thousands of employees to cut costs and outsource positions, including those in its reservation office.

#1: Hewlett-Packard — 27,275

As weakness in the PC market persists and macro headwinds weigh down sales, HP announced it would cut nearly 8 percent of its staff. The company said it planned on using the savings to invest in cloud computing, data analytics and information technology security. The cuts also include lay offs from the demise of WebOS.